She said from that moment on her drug addiction only got worse. She was living in Massachusetts at the time, with little contact with her family.

Christine said she eventually started using heroin, then crack.

"When I was using drugs, I was doing whatever I needed to do to get more drugs," she said.

The news she never expected

Christine said, during a trip to detox, she found out she was three months pregnant.

"When I got pregnant with him, I was on drugs and didn't know I was pregnant with him," she said.

Christine decided to continue with detox and convinced her doctor to lower her dosage of methdone. She said she did everything she could to give her unborn son the best chance at a good life.

It worked, and her son was born healthy.

But, Christine was not. She kept using, and her little boy was taken away when he was about six months old.

"Through all of that, I bottomed out and I was doing a lot of bad things and I become a terrible mother to a child that I desperately loved. I was a really bad mother ... at one point DSS came and they took my son and it was very painful," Christine said.

Her son stayed with relatives and then went into foster care.

For several years, Christine only saw her little boy in supervised visits.

Divine intervention

Then, on Aug. 7, 2008, she went to a court appearance and landed in jail. She told the judge she needed help or she was going to die.

"That day, I had an abscess on my arm from using IV drugs, and I had lost everything. I had nothing. I didn't have my family, I didn't have my child," Christine said.

She said, while she was sitting in that jail cell, she said a prayer to surrender her addiction, and it worked.

She's been sober since.

"I knew that it was important that I stay clean no matter what, no matter if I got my son back or not. So, to me, that was the greatest experience of surrender that I've ever had ... was when I surrendered my child," she said.

Rebuilding her family

Christine regained custody of her son when he was 4. Seven years later, they're still rebuilding their relationship.

Christine now has a 2-year-old daughter, as well. She says her son is like most 11-year-olds. He loves video games and hockey and his younger sister.

She said they now have a great bond and is amazed by her little boy.

But, Christine said she still carries lots of guilt over the life she brought him into and the years she gave away.

"My son's gone through hell because of my addiction, and it's not fair. I'm not proud of it," Christine said.

When we told her how many other children are being born in to addictions in our area, she was shocked and emotional.